The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-08-25
Reduction OF Teachers
Salaries.
Another Consideration for the
People of Logan Village
school District.

ED. SENTINEL:
The honorable President of the
Board has made an apparently able
explanation, in a communication in
last weeks SENTINEL, of his acts
relative to the reduction Of teach.
ers' salaries and his constituents
endorse him for it.
There are however, some facts
and figures yet TO be presented that
were certainly overlooked on that
memorable occasion.
That our tax duplicate is light. is
no fault of our schools or their man.
agement. There are reasons for this
small tax duplicate, that can be ex-
planned to The entire satisfaction of
all concerned or interested, at the
county auditors Office where the alb
stract of taxable property Is COM
pleted. The result of the recent in
vestlgatlon into the returns of per-
sonal property by the Board of
Equalization, was q reform a,oce
in the right direction and the start
ing point from which to begin if you
would tighten the burden of the tax
payer. That was one of the ave-.
nues through. (which the duplicate
may be handsomely increased and
that too without affecting IN the
slightest degree ous "1ooy people.
freeholders, mechanics, "except for
their good.
Any one acquainted with the laws
governing the valuation of rea, es-
tate and still more with the estimat-
ed wealth of our town, cannot but
wonder that the duplicate Is less
than 81 900, 900.
There is no plausible..reason why
il should not be 81. 900 900 and the
reform measure above referred to
will make il so in a short time.
The Board has paid its teachers
below the High school principal
more than the average wages ofthe
lady teachers of the entire State,
but this is not fair comparison.
since it includes the average wages
of all graded schools in the State of
whatever rank, hundreds of which
Logan woald scorn 10 be compared
with in any particular.
By referring to the State School
Report of 1886. it will be seen that
the average wages of lady teachers
in schools the size of our own ranges
from $38 to s62. We are quick to
resent any detrimental comparison
between Lancaster aud Logan, yet
in Lancaster the average wages of
lady teachers below the High
school. are $5l. In Neisonville
they are SAL. In Athens they are
SAT. In the remaining towns of
adjoining counties they are either
below Or about equal to our own
average of s3S.
The average cost of tuition per
pupil in tho Lancaster schools is
$lS.42; in Nelsonville it is 7.35
in Athens It has always been
higher than in Logan, but the ex
act figures for 1885 are not given in
the Report. In the graded schools
of Perry county the average for all
the towns is over SO. In Pickaway
county it is over S15. In Ross il is
s13.45. In Vinton it is less than
$40. In our own schools the cost
per pupil based on the figures else.
where given ID $40.
Will this comparison justify re.
iuction of salaries (?
That the rate of taxation in our
Town is larger than in other towns
IF Its size IS again not the fault Of
,ur schools.
Indeed the high rate of taxation
s due to the efforts at public I'M
and public safety in ev-
Dry direction except the schools, the
of iasaividual ard
general improvement and safety.
And yet the schools must be first
c suffer from an economical move
BECAUSE of an out cry against fancy
ligh salared teachers"
There are few counties in the
State and still fewer large towns in
which the levy for school purposes
loes get go to the full limit Of the
NV, and certainly the average levy
or the State approaches close to
his limit. There are graded school
districts in the State IN poorer coun-
les and towns the size of ours where
he rate for school purposes is twice
What 1t is here. A glance at table
XVIII in the above named report
viii bear me out in this statement.
In a neighborlng rocky township
f our own county, there is grad
ID school district with u rate of 10
Mills and an average of So for its
ady teachers. There has. as yet,
,een no complaint from this district
gainEt high taxation for school pur